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- FEBRUARY 19, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Roberto Lara and Roderick Licayan, two Filipinos sentenced...
Roberto Lara and Roderick Licayan, two Filipinos sentenced to death and reprieved four days before their due execution on January 30, were granted a retrial after the country's supreme court said new evidence could prove their innocence
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
A military court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced to death Asadullo...
A military court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced to death Asadullo Abdullayev, 24, and Ilkhom Izatullayev, 25, two Islamic militants of Uzbek nationality, after finding them guilty of plotting an explosion on December 2002 at a market in Bishkek which killed seve
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
An Ethiopian high court sentenced to death Fisseha...
An Ethiopian high court sentenced to death Fisseha Biresa and Dereje Deme, two members of the rebel Oromo Liberation Front, after they were found guilty of of killing 43 innocent civilians in Mugi town in Oromia State, some 300 kilometres (190 miles) west
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
A military court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced to death Asadullo...
A military court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced to death Asadullo Abdullayev, 24, and Ilkhom Izatullayev, 25, two Islamic militants of Uzbek nationality, after finding them guilty of plotting an explosion on December 2002 at a market in Bishkek which killed seve
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Senior Deputy Speaker of the Russian State Duma Lyubov...
Senior Deputy Speaker of the Russian State Duma Lyubov Sliska said she thought the moratorium on the death penalty would be abolished, but not soon
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China rejected Japan's call to reduce the penalty for...
China rejected Japan's call to reduce the penalty for a Japanese national sentenced to death for drug smuggling
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
China rejected Japan's call to reduce the penalty for...
China rejected Japan's call to reduce the penalty for a Japanese national sentenced to death for drug smuggling
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in southern Tajikistan sentenced two men to...
A court in southern Tajikistan sentenced two men to death for murder, the Tajik national news agency Khovar web site reported
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004MarylandDEATH PENALTY
The Maryland Court of Appeals overturned the death...
The Maryland Court of Appeals overturned the death sentence of John A
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Jefferson County, Kenisha Berry, 26, was sentenced...
In Jefferson County, Kenisha Berry, 26, was sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004UtahDEATH PENALTY
In Salt Lake City, the Utah Legislature gave final...
In Salt Lake City, the Utah Legislature gave final approval to a bill eliminating firing squad executions for condemned prisoners
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that four prisoners on death in Papua...
It was reported that four prisoners on death in Papua New Guinea were awaiting execution as they had exhausted all their appeals
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004CanadaDEATH PENALTY
A civic group, Democracy Network Against the North...
A civic group, Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag, submitted a petition to the Canadian Embassy in Seoul, requesting that the Canadian government grant political refugee status to Ri Song-dae, 36, a former North Korean diplomat
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
"The death penalty, as a mode of punishment, is contrary...
"The death penalty, as a mode of punishment, is contrary to the contemporary human rights standards and values and, thus, its continued application in Nigeria would downgrade the status of the country among the comity of democratic nation-states that have
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Tangail, Bangladesh, condemned Badsha Mia...
A court in Tangail, Bangladesh, condemned Badsha Mia to death in absentia for killing his mother
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A civic group, Democracy Network Against the North...
A civic group, Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag, submitted a petition to the Canadian Embassy in Seoul, requesting that the Canadian government grant political refugee status to Ri Song-dae, 36, a former North Korean diplomat
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Naogaon, Bangladesh, sentenced two people,...
A court in Naogaon, Bangladesh, sentenced two people, including an Indian national, to death and awarded life imprisonment to two others for murder
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Naogaon, Bangladesh, sentenced two people,...
A court in Naogaon, Bangladesh, sentenced two people, including an Indian national, to death and awarded life imprisonment to two others for murder
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Alan Gell, 28, who spent a decade behind bars in the...
Alan Gell, 28, who spent a decade behind bars in the 1995 murder of Allen Ray Jenkins, has been set free after a Bertie County jury's not-guilty verdict
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Tomas Raul Gallo, 28, convicted of raping and murdering...
Tomas Raul Gallo, 28, convicted of raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl was sentenced to the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The Uzbek Supreme Court sentenced Aziz Karimov to the...
The Uzbek Supreme Court sentenced Aziz Karimov to the death penalty, aftre convicting him of being one of the plotters of the explosion in Bishkek's Oberon marketplace on 27 December 2002 which claimed seven lives
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, sentenced four...
A court in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, sentenced four people to death and five to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for the murder of Ashraful Haque Mollah, a pro-government student leader
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004QatarDEATH PENALTY
Qatar passed its first anti-terror law, which stipulated...
Qatar passed its first anti-terror law, which stipulated the death penalty for killing "through a terror act"
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven criminals convicted for murder and robbery were...
Seven criminals convicted for murder and robbery were put to death in Beijing immediately following execution orders issued by the Beijing high court
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russia's Criminal Code should not be applicable to...
Russia's Criminal Code should not be applicable to terrorists and "they must be placed outside the law" and executed on the spot, the deputy speaker of Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, and the co-chairman of Rodina bloc Dmitry Rogozin s
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four people, including two women, were executed by...
Four people, including two women, were executed by firing squad in Vietnam after being convicted on murder and drug trafficking charges an official said
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In McAlester, Norman Richard Cleary was put to death
In McAlester, Norman Richard Cleary was put to death
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Huntsville...
Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Huntsville Tuesday night for the Dec
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Senator John Kerry, who now seems close to winning...
Senator John Kerry, who now seems close to winning the Democratic nomination to run against President George Bush in the upcoming US presidential elections, declared himself for a moratorium because of "serious systemic flaws" in the country's death penal
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004KansasDEATH PENALTY
In Topeka, the Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed...
In Topeka, the Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill clarifying Kansas' ban on executing mentally retarded defendants, even though some panel members think it is too broad